Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] still [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He said last night : ‘ I think I 've proved that I still have a lot to offer at senior level .
2 I saw that she still wore an engagement ring , but she told me very quickly that her fiancé had been a bomber pilot and he was dead , and it was not the same man she had been engaged to when she joined up .
3 More than half a dozen British Press awards as ‘ Sports Writer of the Year ’ , and four Sports Council tributes embracing both ‘ Best Sports Feature Writer ’ and ‘ Best Overall Sports Writer ’ have gone to McIlvanney , yet he glumly agrees with my own feeling that we still have a distance to go before achieving respectability .
4 Previously , the Minister has said that we still have a surplus of dairy products , which is true , but there is not a steady weekly or monthly supply of milk .
5 That such aircraft are still earning their keep and plying the airwaves of the world indicates that they still have a role to play , even in this high tech age of ‘ glass ’ cockpits , autoland , sub-Mach cruise and the like .
6 All I do know is that it seems someone here does believe that they still have an influence . ’
7 I have checked that it still remains a right and that it is OK to withdraw .
8 That it still attracts a nucleus of prestigious and established art dealers : Waddington , Raab , Flowers East , Glasgow print Studio amongst others , is a reflection of its vitality , and that new ones are appearing emphasises its buoyancy and optimism .
9 We know that it still has a poll tax element , that it will still need a register , and that it still does not relate to the ability to pay .
10 Rincewind relaxed slightly , which was to say that he still made a violin string look like a bowl of jelly .
11 It seemed to me that it was not only natural but positive : it demonstrated that he still had a relationship with God .
12 A shopkeeper in Nuremberg who said to a customer what ‘ in these days was common to almost everybody in Nuremberg ’ , that Hitler was set on continuing the war , tried to deceive the people into thinking that he still had a miracle weapon , and was ‘ nothing more than a criminal ’ , was denounced by the customer , taken away by the police , and shot for ‘ subversion of the military power ’ .
13 But he said afterwards that he still had a lot to learn about driving an Indycar .
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